Packer Contracts in England

Hashicorp Packer
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Packer skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Packer over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 440 500 505
Rank change year-on-year +60 +5 +67
Contract jobs citing Packer 45 42 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.11% 0.29%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.19% 0.96% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 30 116
10th Percentile £490 £453 £444
25th Percentile £563 £459 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £539 £632
Median % change year-on-year +29.93% -14.71% +5.28%
75th Percentile £738 £649 £666
90th Percentile £750 £938 £688
UK median daily rate £650 £550 £630
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.70% +5.00%

All Systems Management Skills
England

Packer falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,779 4,390 7,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.52% 11.80% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,614 3,174 5,772
10th Percentile £313 £250 £350
25th Percentile £420 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £628 £625 £680
90th Percentile £738 £700 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 120 184
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.00 £16.83
25th Percentile £23.64 £17.74 £23.13
Median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%
75th Percentile £62.44 £51.13 £72.80
90th Percentile £76.09 £70.13 £82.16
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Packer as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Packer in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Packer in England.

Daily rate trend for Packer in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Packer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Packer in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Packer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +35 23 £725 +56.76% 6
London +31 17 £645 +19.72% 14
Yorkshire +16 12 £725 +56.76% 2
North East +5 6 £650 +18.18% 1
North West +20 5 £750 - 4
South West +46 1 £500 -25.93% 1
South East +38 1 £478 -26.46% 3
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (31.11%) nginx
2 12 (26.67%) Traefik
3 5 (11.11%) Confluence
4 1 (2.22%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 39 (86.67%) AWS
2 28 (62.22%) AWS CloudFormation
3 18 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
4 17 (37.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 16 (35.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 15 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
7 14 (31.11%) Entra ID
8 6 (13.33%) Azure
9 4 (8.89%) IaaS
10 3 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (6.67%) AWS KMS
10 3 (6.67%) GCP
10 3 (6.67%) GitHub
10 3 (6.67%) PaaS
10 3 (6.67%) Route 53
10 3 (6.67%) SaaS
11 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (4.44%) Datadog
11 2 (4.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (33.33%) DNS
1 15 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.44%) IPsec
2 2 (4.44%) Kerberos
2 2 (4.44%) SSL
3 1 (2.22%) DHCP
3 1 (2.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (44.44%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.22%) MySQL
4 1 (2.22%) Redis
4 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 32 (71.11%) Jenkins
2 29 (64.44%) GitLab
3 9 (20.00%) Git
4 6 (13.33%) JIRA
5 3 (6.67%) Maven
6 1 (2.22%) CircleCI
6 1 (2.22%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.22%) Vagrant
General
1 13 (28.89%) Public Sector
2 7 (15.56%) Military
2 7 (15.56%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.44%) Finance
4 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 30 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (48.89%) Senior
2 22 (48.89%) Senior DevOps
3 16 (35.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 8 (17.78%) Lead
5 4 (8.89%) Lead DevOps
5 4 (8.89%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Test Leader
7 2 (4.44%) Architect
7 2 (4.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Technical Architect
8 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.22%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (2.22%) DevOps Developer
8 1 (2.22%) Digital Developer
8 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 1 (2.22%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (48.89%) cloud-init
2 17 (37.78%) Kafka
3 15 (33.33%) Keycloak
4 6 (13.33%) Node.js
5 3 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (4.44%) OAuth
6 2 (4.44%) OAuth2
6 2 (4.44%) OpenID
6 2 (4.44%) REST
6 2 (4.44%) SAML
6 2 (4.44%) Spring
6 2 (4.44%) Spring Boot
6 2 (4.44%) Web Services
6 2 (4.44%) XACML
7 1 (2.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (31.11%) PKI
2 3 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (4.44%) Hedge funds
3 2 (4.44%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 36 (80.00%) Linux
2 29 (64.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 25 (55.56%) CentOS
4 24 (53.33%) Unix
5 6 (13.33%) Windows
6 3 (6.67%) Rocky
7 2 (4.44%) Mac OS
8 1 (2.22%) Ubuntu
8 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
8 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (91.11%) DevOps
2 36 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 33 (73.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (55.56%) Continuous Integration
5 19 (42.22%) Agile
6 17 (37.78%) Observability
7 15 (33.33%) Cloud Security
7 15 (33.33%) Secrets Management
8 14 (31.11%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 14 (31.11%) Identity Management
8 14 (31.11%) Static Application Security Testing
9 12 (26.67%) Mobile Device Management
10 5 (11.11%) Containerisation
10 5 (11.11%) Roadmaps
10 5 (11.11%) Service Management
11 4 (8.89%) Collaborative Working
11 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 4 (8.89%) Microservices
11 4 (8.89%) Performance Tuning
11 4 (8.89%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 33 (73.33%) Python
2 32 (71.11%) Bash
3 25 (55.56%) Go
4 7 (15.56%) Java
5 5 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 5 (11.11%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.67%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.44%) SQL
8 1 (2.22%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 30 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 28 (62.22%) SC Cleared
3 15 (33.33%) AWS Certification
4 3 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.44%) RHCA
5 2 (4.44%) RHCE
6 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (31.11%) NCSC
2 5 (11.11%) QA
3 2 (4.44%) HIPAA
3 2 (4.44%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.22%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 10 (22.22%) Docker
2 4 (8.89%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.44%) RACF
4 1 (2.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 45 (100.00%) Terraform
2 29 (64.44%) Kubernetes
3 19 (42.22%) Prometheus
4 18 (40.00%) Ansible
4 18 (40.00%) Grafana
5 17 (37.78%) Consul
6 14 (31.11%) Istio
6 14 (31.11%) Jamf Pro
6 14 (31.11%) linkerd
6 14 (31.11%) Rancher
6 14 (31.11%) ZABBIX
7 12 (26.67%) HAProxy
8 4 (8.89%) Puppet
9 3 (6.67%) Kustomize
10 2 (4.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (4.44%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (2.22%) Graylog
11 1 (2.22%) Nessus
11 1 (2.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (37.78%) Splunk
2 14 (31.11%) Okta
3 12 (26.67%) Apple
3 12 (26.67%) ESET
4 3 (6.67%) Red Hat
4 3 (6.67%) VMware
5 2 (4.44%) Google
6 1 (2.22%) Black Duck
6 1 (2.22%) Checkmarx
6 1 (2.22%) Cisco
6 1 (2.22%) Citrix
6 1 (2.22%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.22%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.22%) Oracle
6 1 (2.22%) Tenable